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Call it Mr. Pink?

Hopfully be able to pitch a little in when I get my student loan.

Call it Mr. Mustard?

awesomefriends56 wrote:

Call it Ms.Purple?

Samiak_ wrote:

Call it Mr. Mustard?

Nonono, they're named after the Reservoir Dog aliases

Except for MrGreen who's probably something to do with weed and the forum smiley.

awesomefriends56 wrote:

Call it Ms.Purple?

Samiak_ wrote:

Call it Mr. Mustard?

Nonono, they're named after the Reservoir Dog aliases

Except for MrGreen who's probably something to do with weed and the forum smiley.

awesomefriends56 wrote:

Call it Ms.Purple?

Samiak_ wrote:

Call it Mr. Mustard?

Nonono, they're named after the Reservoir Dog aliases

Except for MrGreen who's probably something to do with weed and the forum smiley.

Thanks everyone for donating! I'm absolutely blown away on the speed that we gathered the money!

[SpA]SaintK wrote:

Thanks everyone for donating! I'm absolutely blown away on the speed that we gathered the money!

..but i guess more donations are still welcome

For the interested, here are the specs of the machine I have selected so far. I have chosen to go for a single CPU system with a high clock. (We need a lot of power per core, rather then a lot of lower powered cores).

RECT Rack Server RS-8560B4
Intel Xeon Processor E3-1270v2 (3.50 GHz, 8 MB); <-- CPU
6x Kingston DIMM 4 GB PC3-10600 ECC (24GB); <-- Memory
SuperMicro X9SCM-F; <-- Motherboard
SuperMicro System Management Card (on Board); <- Remote management HW card
3ware SAS 9750-4I; <- SAS RAID controller
Slim-Line DVD-writer; <- DVD player
Chenbro 19" rack-server-case 1U (black) with 4x HotSwap; <- Server case
Mounting bracket set; <- Mouting brackets to mount the server in the DC's 19" rack
Zippy 500 watt power supply; <- PSU

This system should come down around 2000,- (give or take a 100).

I am still looking for alternatives, see if there is better hardware for our money. If I can't find anything better, this machine will be ordered early next week.

[SpA]SaintK wrote:

Are you going for a hire purchase?
I did some calculations of my own and I got to 1.851â‚¬... Must've done something wrong... Anyway, that's a shitload of cash. How much do you have now (roughly)? Do you need the hardware exactly how quickly?

Samiak_ wrote:

No hire, we'll do a direct puchase. Mind you, it should come down to about 1900,- incl. shippingcosts and insurance during shipping.

We have 2000,- now (roughly

). We want the new hardware asap.

Yay, When's it arrive?

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 23 Aug 2012, 17:33 ]
Post subject:	New server replacing MrBlonde
Hi community, We're looking into buying a new server to replace our main gameserver, MrBlonde. There are several reasons to why we want to replace MrBlonde; - Server is becoming old and is showing defects. Out of 16 memory slots only 5 remain working leaving us with 5 instead of 16GB RAM. - Due to it's hardware issues this server is causing small freezes and laggyness on the gameservers hosted on it - Hardware is becoming outdated, when we bought the machine hardware requirements to host games were 25-50% lower then they are today What do we plan on doing with this new machine? - Move over all current servers from old MrBlonde to the new MrBlonde, these are TF2, L4D2, CS:GO and KF - Move the minecraft servers off MrGreen so space becomes available on our windows platform to host games which don't support Linux (For example, DayZ). MC on it's turn will have more resources available if required - Other stuff we haven't thought about yet From the old server we'll only move the harddisks over to the new machine, these harddisks are high performance 15.000RPM SAS drives. Due to the new hardware the server quality will improve greatly and we'll have more space available to host other games. As you would expect, new hardware costs money. As we are a community, and I simply cannot bring up the money on my own, we'll need your support! Our expectations are that the new server will be quite a bit cheaper than our previous buys (which where between 2500,- and 3000,- for each server), somewhere around 2000,- Euro's. I am willing to chip in 1000,- Euro's to head start the funding, the other 50% needs to come from you guy's and gals! As soon as I know it's exact price and spec's I'll be updating this thread. (Currently informing on configurations and best prices) There are several way's of donating to specialattack. You can donate using paypal, direct bank transfer or through regular mail(not advised). If you have no access to paypal or international bank transfers, contact me and we'll sort out a way. If you donate, please mention it's for the new machine! (We still need to pay for the monthly datacenter costs as well, which I am willing to carry on my own as long as we're collecting funds for the new machine). Thanks for helping out, and remember, no donation is too small! Every penny counts and gets us closer to our goals. Of course you'll be rewarded for your donations. Currently we can reward in TF2 and MC. For CS:GO we're still converting SpA points to be able to work there. - The SpecialAttack community (you, me, them, everybody!) Current donations: Saint K. 1000,- _9mmNL_ 200,- Dunken 200,- DonDonDon 25,- annarack 100,- Blackhawk 100,- Frimple 375,- Total: 2000,- To go: 0,-

Author:	[SpA]JuncoPartner [ 23 Aug 2012, 17:38 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
Call it Mr. Pink? Hopfully be able to pitch a little in when I get my student loan.

Author:	[SpA]Dolf [ 23 Aug 2012, 17:49 ]
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Call it Mr. Mustard? Hopefully I will be able to pitch a little in when I get my social welfare provisions & student allowance.

Author:	[SpA]AwesomeFriends [ 24 Aug 2012, 02:37 ]
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Call it Ms.Purple? So, this is basically in the long run going to lower the price of running/maintenance by updating hardware and moving most (if not all) of our servers to the same machine? If this is so, that's amazing. I'm wondering what'll become of Mr.Green (i.e. What games are going to be hosted, what new games are planned, etc.).

Author:	[SpA]don_don_don [ 24 Aug 2012, 02:43 ]
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[SpA]JuncoPartner wrote: Call it Mr. Pink? Hopfully be able to pitch a little in when I get my student loan. Mr pink is the backup server in saints house I believe.

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Author:	[SpA]JuncoPartner [ 24 Aug 2012, 03:43 ]
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awesomefriends56 wrote: Call it Ms.Purple? Samiak_ wrote: Call it Mr. Mustard? Nonono, they're named after the Reservoir Dog aliases Except for MrGreen who's probably something to do with weed and the forum smiley.

Author:	[SpA]heldplayer [ 24 Aug 2012, 11:29 ]
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[SpA]JuncoPartner wrote: awesomefriends56 wrote: Call it Ms.Purple? Samiak_ wrote: Call it Mr. Mustard? Nonono, they're named after the Reservoir Dog aliases Except for MrGreen who's probably something to do with weed and the forum smiley. Mr. Blue then?

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 24 Aug 2012, 11:30 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
[SpA]JuncoPartner wrote: awesomefriends56 wrote: Call it Ms.Purple? Samiak_ wrote: Call it Mr. Mustard? Nonono, they're named after the Reservoir Dog aliases Except for MrGreen who's probably something to do with weed and the forum smiley. Good guess

Author:	[SpA]Dolf [ 24 Aug 2012, 14:44 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
[SpA]JuncoPartner wrote: awesomefriends56 wrote: Call it Ms.Purple? Samiak_ wrote: Call it Mr. Mustard? Nonono, they're named after the Reservoir Dog aliases Except for MrGreen who's probably something to do with weed and the forum smiley. Reservoid Dog...? ._. Never heard of it... After some Googling I found out what the hell it is. So if you have - NiceGuyEddie.specialattack.net MrBlonde.specialattack.net MrGreen.specialattack.net MrWhite.specialattack.net (Backup server Mr. Pink?) - you'll still have Orange, Blue, Brown and J. Cabot open? à² _à² Derp.

Author:	[SpA]Ivanosauros [ 24 Aug 2012, 14:46 ]
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I like the sound of Mr Joe ^^

Author:	[SpA]Blackhawk [ 24 Aug 2012, 16:58 ]
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I chipped in some bananas through the donation page.

Author:	tigerdragon180 [ 25 Aug 2012, 00:01 ]
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1 day i will finaly donate to the community...still cant though (blame it on my car...its eating my money!!!)

Author:	[SpA]Frimple [ 25 Aug 2012, 00:51 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
I tried to donate to this yesterday and all I got was the bank phoning me at 9am to ask me my date of birth. And then also phoning my mother, which really bank, is too far.

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 25 Aug 2012, 01:05 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
Who just sent in that last donation? It doesn't display your nickname along with it!

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Author:	[SpA]Frimple [ 25 Aug 2012, 01:34 ]
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Probably me, I've never once donated and gotten it right.

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 25 Aug 2012, 08:22 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
Thanks everyone for donating! I'm absolutely blown away on the speed that we gathered the money! I have the first price quotes for the machine, but I'll do some more research. Prolly placing the order on monday!

Author:	[SpA]Dunken [ 25 Aug 2012, 10:37 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
[SpA]SaintK wrote: Thanks everyone for donating! I'm absolutely blown away on the speed that we gathered the money! ..but i guess more donations are still welcome

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 25 Aug 2012, 12:36 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
Dunken wrote: [SpA]SaintK wrote: Thanks everyone for donating! I'm absolutely blown away on the speed that we gathered the money! ..but i guess more donations are still welcome Correct. The more donations to better servers we can build!

Author:	[SpA]JuncoPartner [ 25 Aug 2012, 13:06 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
Shit guys, can we like buy a SpecialAttack blimp or something next?

Author:	[SpA]Ivanosauros [ 25 Aug 2012, 14:25 ]
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How about a zoo? Specialattack Animal Shelter, maybe?

Author:	frankwj1 [ 25 Aug 2012, 15:33 ]
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Maybe a building for all SpA players to meet and game together!!! Weeeeeee Sent from my Jelly Beaned Ace

Author:	canadacanucks01 [ 25 Aug 2012, 19:45 ]
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Thanks guys, this is pretty awesome!

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 25 Aug 2012, 20:33 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
For the interested, here are the specs of the machine I have selected so far. I have chosen to go for a single CPU system with a high clock. (We need a lot of power per core, rather then a lot of lower powered cores). RECT Rack Server RS-8560B4 Intel Xeon Processor E3-1270v2 (3.50 GHz, 8 MB); <-- CPU 6x Kingston DIMM 4 GB PC3-10600 ECC (24GB); <-- Memory SuperMicro X9SCM-F; <-- Motherboard SuperMicro System Management Card (on Board); <- Remote management HW card 3ware SAS 9750-4I; <- SAS RAID controller Slim-Line DVD-writer; <- DVD player Chenbro 19" rack-server-case 1U (black) with 4x HotSwap; <- Server case Mounting bracket set; <- Mouting brackets to mount the server in the DC's 19" rack Zippy 500 watt power supply; <- PSU This system should come down around 2000,- (give or take a 100). I am still looking for alternatives, see if there is better hardware for our money. If I can't find anything better, this machine will be ordered early next week.

Author:	[SpA]Dolf [ 25 Aug 2012, 20:53 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
[SpA]SaintK wrote: For the interested, here are the specs of the machine I have selected so far. I have chosen to go for a single CPU system with a high clock. (We need a lot of power per core, rather then a lot of lower powered cores). RECT Rack Server RS-8560B4 Intel Xeon Processor E3-1270v2 (3.50 GHz, 8 MB); <-- CPU 6x Kingston DIMM 4 GB PC3-10600 ECC (24GB); <-- Memory SuperMicro X9SCM-F; <-- Motherboard SuperMicro System Management Card (on Board); <- Remote management HW card 3ware SAS 9750-4I; <- SAS RAID controller Slim-Line DVD-writer; <- DVD player Chenbro 19" rack-server-case 1U (black) with 4x HotSwap; <- Server case Mounting bracket set; <- Mouting brackets to mount the server in the DC's 19" rack Zippy 500 watt power supply; <- PSU This system should come down around 2000,- (give or take a 100). I am still looking for alternatives, see if there is better hardware for our money. If I can't find anything better, this machine will be ordered early next week. Are you going for a hire purchase? I did some calculations of my own and I got to 1.851â‚¬... Must've done something wrong... Anyway, that's a shitload of cash. How much do you have now (roughly)? Do you need the hardware exactly how quickly?

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 25 Aug 2012, 21:24 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
Samiak_ wrote: [SpA]SaintK wrote: For the interested, here are the specs of the machine I have selected so far. I have chosen to go for a single CPU system with a high clock. (We need a lot of power per core, rather then a lot of lower powered cores). RECT Rack Server RS-8560B4 Intel Xeon Processor E3-1270v2 (3.50 GHz, 8 MB); <-- CPU 6x Kingston DIMM 4 GB PC3-10600 ECC (24GB); <-- Memory SuperMicro X9SCM-F; <-- Motherboard SuperMicro System Management Card (on Board); <- Remote management HW card 3ware SAS 9750-4I; <- SAS RAID controller Slim-Line DVD-writer; <- DVD player Chenbro 19" rack-server-case 1U (black) with 4x HotSwap; <- Server case Mounting bracket set; <- Mouting brackets to mount the server in the DC's 19" rack Zippy 500 watt power supply; <- PSU This system should come down around 2000,- (give or take a 100). I am still looking for alternatives, see if there is better hardware for our money. If I can't find anything better, this machine will be ordered early next week. Are you going for a hire purchase? I did some calculations of my own and I got to 1.851â‚¬... Must've done something wrong... Anyway, that's a shitload of cash. How much do you have now (roughly)? Do you need the hardware exactly how quickly? No hire, we'll do a direct puchase. Mind you, it should come down to about 1900,- incl. shippingcosts and insurance during shipping. We have 2000,- now (roughly ). We want the new hardware asap.

Author:	[SpA]Dolf [ 25 Aug 2012, 23:13 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
[SpA]SaintK wrote: Samiak_ wrote: Are you going for a hire purchase? I did some calculations of my own and I got to 1.851â‚¬... Must've done something wrong... Anyway, that's a shitload of cash. How much do you have now (roughly)? Do you need the hardware exactly how quickly? No hire, we'll do a direct puchase. Mind you, it should come down to about 1900,- incl. shippingcosts and insurance during shipping. We have 2000,- now (roughly ). We want the new hardware asap. Ahh! Perfect. So we'll be back to "normal" in no time, eh? That's good to hear. I'll throw some cash in when I get some

Author:	[SpA]AwesomeFriends [ 26 Aug 2012, 21:27 ]
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I vote we pay for a TV spot on an international Television Station... and have someone that's good with editing 'n' stuff to do the video

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 27 Aug 2012, 12:57 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
New status update: Server order has been placed & paid for. A small change to it's setup, it will contain 32 instead of 24GB memory.

Author:	[SpA]don_don_don [ 27 Aug 2012, 13:32 ]
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Yay, When's it arrive?

Author:	[SpA]SaintK [ 27 Aug 2012, 13:34 ]
Post subject:	Re: New server replacing MrBlonde
[SpA]don_don_don wrote: Yay, When's it arrive? I'm guessing end of next week, ish. It takes 3 day's to clear the wire transfer, then another few days to have it assembled & tested, and then it needs to be shipped to my country/house (it's coming from Germany).